Sentences with phrase «equitable funding of»

This will require sufficient resources for the preparation of information and consultation materials, as well as the equitable funding of forums or groups for the expression of diverse views.

School board president Wendy Falb said the lack of progress on the equitable funding of public schools in Michigan is troubling.

The legislature has done nothing to increase the fair, equitable funding of 1,070,000 children.

A proposed ballot initiative for 2018 to advance better and more equitable funding of public schools.

An outgrowth of decades - long debates on equitable funding of public schools is an effort to ensure that schools provide «adequate levels of funding» for all students in a state (Augenblick, et al., 1997).

The impacts of the first private school voucher programs in the South still reverberate today in battles for adequate and equitable funding of public education.

The fact that overall funding progressivity remains low despite two decades of reforms suggests a troubling lack of progress on equitable funding of public schools.

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We do support, however, changes to the funding and management of the federal employees» pension plans, including the move to more equitable contribution rates, changes in retirement provisions for new employees, among others.

Funds are disbursed to organizations and initiatives that are driving critical work on the frontlines to meet immediate relief needs and organizing for the building of an equitable Puerto Rico.

Other key promises include reforming the Alberta Heritage Savings and Trust Fund after the Alaska Permanent Fund, and working with the federal government to gain a more equitable distribution of federal transfer payments.

Widely affirmed proposals call for the restructure of low - performing schools, more emphasis on the basics, safer classrooms, more rigorous graduation standards, periodic measurement of progress through some kind of standardized tests, longer days and year - round schooling, decentralization into smaller learning communities and greater freedom for those smaller units, smaller classes, better - qualified teachers and improved salaries, more parental input and more equitable funding.

While my efforts to persuade the Board of Selectmen, the town manager, and the Rec Department director to allocate permits in a more equitable fashion, and to use their power to make sure that the programs using town - owned facilities met minimum standards for inclusiveness and safety, fell on deaf ears (we ended up being forced to use for our home games a dusty field the high school had essentially abandoned), I returned to a discussion of the «power of the venue permit» 10 years later in my 2006 book, Home Team Advantage: The Critical Role of Mothers in Youth Sports, where I suggested that one of the best ways for youth sports parents to improve the safety of privately - run sports programs in their communities was to lobby their elected officials to utilize that power to «reform youth sports by exercising public oversight over the use of taxpayer - funded fields, diamonds, tracks, pools, and courts, [and] deny permits to programs that fail to abide by a [youth sports] charter» covering such topics as background checks, and codes of conduct for coaches, players, and parents.

Secretary of the Senate Angelo Aponte briefed reporters at the Capitol today on the chamber's new guidelines for the use of taxpayer - funded media — including everything from bulk mailings to Websites — and insisted the majority is striving for an equitable distribution of resources.

Also, many countries have social insurance taxes, typically impose on the basis in employment income, that fund universal pensions, health care and other social services, in which the distributions of benefits may be more equitable that the taxes that pay for them.

Among the vocal critics of congestion pricing is Mayor Bill de Blasio, who has said he has yet to see an equitable proposal for outer - bough drivers and is trying to gain state support for his own plan to fund the MTA subway system.

Senator Dan Squadron added a plea for support of his pending legislation for collaborative funding for NYC Parks between the City and the various Park Conservancies to advance their more equitable care.

«Infrastructure funding allocated annually to each municipality through an established formula, will ensure a fair and equitable distribution of taxpayer dollars to benefit all New Yorkers,» said Clifton Park Town Supervisor Phil Barrett, who conceived of the idea for the S.W.A.P. Program.

«GNYHA will continue to push for fair and equitable solutions, including the creation of a health insurance guarantee fund — which most states already have — to cover past amounts owed and potential future exigencies.»

Nixon has been very close with the Alliance for Quality Education, an organization that has been pushing the state to fulfill the terms of a lawsuit over equitable funding for school districts.

ECCRAB will advise Erie County government through the County Executive as to the effective and equitable distribution of County funds to cultural organizations with the purpose of fostering a vibrant, diverse cultural environment in Erie County.

In a letter sent to hedge fund and opportunistic fixed income managers, Trustees of the New York City Employees Retirement System (NYCERS) called on its hedge fund managers and opportunistic fixed income managers who invest in distressed debt and might therefore, at present or in the future, hold Puerto Rican municipal obligations, to «negotiate in good faith to find a just and equitable solution to» repayment of the municipal debt at the center of Puerto Rico's economic crisis.

«Our members are very knowledgable about education issues, and while there is great concern about the implementation of the Common Core and the over-reliance on testing, there are many other issues that are front - burner for NYSUT members,» he said, listing concerns over the property tax cap, equitable school funding, the teacher evaluation system and the statewide expansion of pre-kindergarten.

Gipson said he supports shifting the funding of education from property taxes to an income - based tax that he said would be more equitable than the current property tax structure.

The report «The effects of cancer treatment on reproductive functions; guidance on management» recommends that a national policy on sperm, egg and embryo storage is needed and that funding bodies develop equitable funding protocols for patients.

Also at 11 a.m., Assembly Minority Leader Brian Kolb and his colleagues will be joined by education advocates and professionals at a press conference to call for equitable education funding and the release of school aid runs, back of Assembly chamber, state Capitol, Albany.

«New York State United Teachers today issued early endorsements to three incumbent state senators who have reliably stood with parents and educators in fighting for fair and equitable funding while vigorously opposing the climate of over-testing that is harming students and public schools,» NYSUT said in a statement.

«We're having excellent discussions about parity, which is good for the state, MTA, roads and bridges, making sure that we have an equitable distribution just like education funding across the State of New York.»

To provide and advocate for equitable and effective processes and procedures for the distribution of County funds to cultural organizations.

When their daughter started kindergarten in 2001, Nixon discovered the Alliance for Quality Education, a parent organization that advocates for increased and equitable distribution of school funding.

AQE and its allies have sought a $ 1.2 billion in increase in foundation aid for education, a figure it says works to satisfy the terms of an equitable funding lawsuit.

This short of the $ 1.5 billion education advocates like the Alliance for Quality Education say is necessary to provide more equitable funding for poorer schools deemed to be in high - needs districts.

The video of Nixon's appearance on The Today Show was distributed in an email to reporters by Billy Easton, the executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, which has long pushed Gov. Andrew Cuomo and state lawmakers to honor the terms of a lawsuit equitable education funding.

The group's poll surveyed 300 voters in New York, finding 61 percent of voters backed a more equitable balance in public school funding for rich and poor communities.

He believes part of the key to education reform is less testing and more equitable, full funding for education.

Instead of high - stakes tests to define high - poverty schools as failing and to justify their conversion to privately - managed charter schools, we need to desegregate schools by race and class and provide equitable and adequate funding of all public schools.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

Members of the Radical University Professionals (RUP) staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.

Members of the Radical University Professionals staged a rally at Peace Park across from the SUNY New Paltz campus on Tuesday, demanding equitable funding for the SUNY system and a fair contract for professors.

The group found 44 or more members of the 2014 Council supporting steps to strengthen committees relative to the speaker and more than three - dozen advocating greater member authority in drafting bills as well as more equitable and transparent allocation of discretionary funds to each Council district.

«There has to be a more equitable plan that accomplishes our shared goals of cleaner air, reduced congestion and sufficiently funding our mass transit system,» Markowitz said.

Nixon has worked over the years with the Alliance for Quality Education, a group heavily funded by unions that has pushed for more equitable distribution of state aid to public schools.

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However, given that the optimal outcome of fertility treatment is a healthy single live birth, supportive funding meets the dual goals of equitable access to treatment and safer outcomes for ART - conceived children and mothers.

To build adequate, equitable, and sustainable financing with effective incentives for quality additional resources will need to come from a combination of public and private resources, with the largest portion of funding coming from public investments, the report says.

The conference brought community organizers, education researchers, youth, educators, funders, and other stakeholders together to discuss the contributions of community organizing to school improvement and equitable education policy.

Part of the answer certainly lies in the policy arena — giving charter schools equitable access to funding (including capital funds), cutting unnecessary regulations, ensuring that institutions other than local school boards can issue charters in every jurisdiction.

We need adequate and equitable funding to take care of these things, he continued.

Allocating funds based on the number and characteristics of students that attend a school, instead of more typical methods of district - based budgeting and funding personnel, has the potential to facilitate public school choice by helping to ensure district schools of choice receive equitable funding.

First, just as the states refused to make good on the «equal» part of «separate but equal» after Plessy, for more than 40 years states have failed to provide equal access to the funding needed to achieve excellent schools for all children, largely because of a lack of federal accountability for equitable school funding.

Similarly, many schoolchildren today attend schools that lack sufficient and equitable funding in part because of Rodriguez, which foreclosed the federal judicial accountability that could require states to remedy their inequitable funding disparities.